Posted on 06/03/2015 8:01:33 AM PDT by Perseverando
CHRISTIANSBURG — After an eight-hour sentencing hearing Monday, Jessica Michelle Ewing, a former Virginia Tech student and Corps of Cadets member was sentenced to 45 years in prison for the 2014 killing of fellow student Samanata Shrestha.
Judge Robert Turk sentenced to Ewing to 80 years for first-degree murder and five years for transporting and concealing a body. After Ewing serves 45 years, the rest will be suspended, Turk ruled. She will be on probation for 20 years after her release. Ewing was facing a minimum of 20 years and up to life in prison on the first-degree murder charge.
Montgomery County Commonwealth’s Attorney Mary Pettitt recommended a life sentence Monday.
Ewing, 24, entered an Alford plea of guilt in February to first-degree murder — just days before her trial was scheduled to begin. Ewing’s attorney, Tyson Daniel, said that there had been great discussion about whether to go forward with a trial, but ultimately Ewing didn’t want to prolong the case and put Shrestha’s family through a trial.
The Alford plea allows Ewing to maintain innocence while acknowledging prosecutors have enough evidence to make a case. Ewing also pleaded guilty to a felony charge of altering, transporting or concealing a body.
During the sentencing hearing, the defense called several witnesses to testify about Ewing’s character and the investigation. But it was Ewing herself who took the stand in order to explain in her own words what happened the night of Feb. 7, 2014, while she and Shrestha, 21, were enjoying a “date night.”
According to Ewing, the two met through school in the fall of 2013 and struck up conversations as they were waiting for their classes. Ewing was a fishery sciences and biology major, and Shrestha was a biology major.
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Also encouraging young womyn to sexually experiment with same sex relations. “c’mon, get tipsy... it’ll be fun!”
The victim had a boyfriend. The killer acknowledged the deceased was only experimenting with it (and this ‘friendzone with benefits’ status was what supposedly set her off).
I used to buy my little grand kids small cans of whipped cream (When their parents weren't around) and let them spray into their own mouths.
Is there something in it that would make them high? (other than the sugar)
Is there something in it that would make them high?
whippit
A small canister (usually 8 or 16g) of nitrous oxide gas (N2O). Used officially in making whipped cream, but more often used recreationally to for its dissociative effects.
I’ve never done it. Don’t know much about it. Since the women were having a whipped cream fight (pre-planned, and possibly why the victim dressed down at first), they probably each had at least one can at the ready.
Nothing in the article says they inhaled it. And nothing says they did or didn’t take any other substances than wine (or how much drinking was entailed).
Woman on whipped cream high smashes SUV into mailbox in Tennessee
BY Lee Moran /
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS /
Wednesday, June 3, 2015, 7:36 AM
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/woman-whipped-cream-high-smashes-suv-tenn-mailbox-article-1.2244772
“Anna Thomas allegedly inhaled the nitrous oxide from 13 canisters of the sweet treat before getting behind the wheel in Franklin at 9 a.m. Wednesday”
There are cheaper and easier ways to get loopy than 13 cans of whipped cream I’d think.
* 13 cans were found in her car after the accident, maybe she used 4 cans and others were from past binges, or maybe some were still untapped...
Yep, the "L" didn't seem to be too tolerant of the diversity of the "B," or was she a "Q?" Who knows?
Indeed extreme people.
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